Dispose of large household items
What can and can't be collected
We will collect:
- Bathroom suites and sanitaryware (a toilet pan, cistern, basin, pedestal, bath, shower cubicle, shower tray are classed as 1 item each. i.e shower cubicle, shower tray and bath are 3 items)
- Beds (a bed is 2 items: bed base with headboard, and mattress)
- Bicycles
- Carpets (must be covered to protect them from rain water and snow)
- Car Tyres ( a tyre and rim is 1 item)
- Computers
- Cookers (Agas, Rayburns and cast-iron cookers are not accepted for collection)
- Cupboards
- Dishwashers
- Doors (doors with glass panels cannot be accepted)
- Freezers and fridges (doors should be taped up or stored with the door up against a wall, interior must be clean and shelves and trays removed)
- Furniture which does not fit into wheelie bin
- Gas heaters (bottle must be removed)
- Gates (up to 2.4m in length)
- Kitchen units, work tops and sinks (kitchen units should not be disassembled. Each unit is 1 item. Work tops no longer than 2.4m in length)
- Lawnmowers and garden tools
- Living room furniture (sofas, arm chairs etc. must be covered to protect from rain water and snow)
- Mattresses (must be covered to protect from rain, water and snow)
- Microwaves
- Rolls of floor covering ( must be covered to protect from rain, water and snow)
- Rotary driers (concrete base and rope must be removed)
- Soft Furnishings ( must be covered to protect from rain, water and snow)
- Storage heaters (bricks must be removed)
- Tables
- Television
- Tumble dryers
- Vacuum cleaners
- Washing machines
- Window frames (frames only, glass will not be accepted)
We will not collect:
- Aga cooker and cast-iron cookers
- Asbestos
- Bagged waste
- Barbed wire
- Batteries
- Branches
- Breeze blocks
- Bricks
- Car parts and scrap metals
- Cement and concrete
- Chemical and liquid waste (including pesticides)
- Clothes pole
- Commercial waste
- Coal bunker
- Corrugated iron
- Dead animals
- DIY( householders materials arising from the enlargement, construction and improvement of property)
- Fencing
- Fireplace
- Fluorescent tubes
- Garage doors
- Gas canisters and gas bottles
- Glass
- Heating appliance and boiler
- Oil
- Paint and paint pots
- Pianos
- Plasterboard
- Radiators
- Rayburn cooker and cast-iron cookers
- Roofing
- Rubble
- Sheds
- Soil
- Stainless steel ranges
- Stones
- Tarmac
- Tree stumps
- Water tanks
- Weed killer
- Wire
- Wood – unless smaller than 2" by 2" by 4ft that cannot fit into a wheeled bin
Visit your nearest recycling centre